Improvement in starch-polishes for linen



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELISSA A. MARNEY, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN STARC H-POLISHES FOR LINEN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,104, dated December22, 1874 application filed June 25, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, MELISSA A. MARNEY, ofTroy, in the county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Linen-Polishes, of which thefollowing is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enableany person skilled in the art or science to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to that class of linenpolishes which are composedin part of starch, and consists of a novel combination of ingredients,as hereinafter more fully setforth, by which a very cheap, simple, andeffective article of this character is produced.

To prepare my improved polish the followin g formula should be observed:

Take onehalf pound of starch, one-half an ounce of white castile-soap,one-half an ounce of parafine, one quarter of an ounce of borax, and oneeighth of an ounce of White wax. Mix the starch with cold Water until itis dissolved and free from lumps; then add boiling water, stirringbriskly until the compound is reduced to the consistency of cream, afterwhich add the other ingredients, and stir until all are thoroughlydissolved and incorporated.

After the linen is ironed, moisten a sponge with the polish and apply,using care to dampen the entire surface, after which polish with amoderately hot smoothing-iron, using the front of the iron only. Alarger or smaller quantity of some of the ingredients may he usedWithout departing from the spirit of my invention, but I prefer toemploy the quantities given, having found by long experience that theseproportions produce the bestresnlts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The linen-polishdescribed, consisting ot the ingredients in the proportions andcompounded in the manner set forth and specified.

MELISSA A. MARNEY.

Witnesses:

J. H. HUNTINGTON, H. K. BUsIr.

